Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner didn’t get an MBA — and she said the EHR giant wouldn’t look the same if she had.
“If I had gotten an MBA, they would likely have taught me how to get venture capital and/or private equity,” she wrote in a Nov. 3 blog post. “How to manage via budgets. How to do an IPO. How to give out titles. How to use job interviews to hire people. And lots of other things we just don’t do.”
Instead, Ms. Faulkner recalled, she read a lot of books and attended one- or two-day classes; some had good ideas, many didn’t.
“Maybe if I had an MBA, I would have been able to get good advice to help grow the company and, at the same time, been able to reject the training that didn’t make sense for Epic,” she wrote. “Don’t know. But it would have been a big risk.”
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